RELATED:Off the Beaten Track: The royal tombs of Jerusalem When approaching the west side of the Old City for the first time, tourists always gaze up at the site of Jaffa Gate and the walls ...

It is these last walls that enclose ... including East Jerusalem. Until recently, Palestinians gathered en masse for protests around Al-Aqsa Mosque, The Damascus Gate of the Old City and Salah ...

JERUSALEM – JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel reopened a 16th-century gate to Jerusalem's Old City ... of the Old City's walls. The authority replaced broken stones, reattached an elaborate inscription ...

Damascus Gate, 1890. One of Jerusalem’s most beautiful gates, built in 1537 under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. Damascus Gate, today. 2. The Western Wall, 1898. Notice that some stones ...

Resembling a crown, the towering and turreted walls of the Damascus Gate are a significant landmark in the city of Jerusalem. Called Bab al-Amoud ("Gate of the Column") by Palestinians and Sha ...

The city is Jerusalem ... It is more or less square, surrounded by walls, and only accessible through a limited number of often elaborate gates. Except to the north, where a fairly busy new ...

Experts and specialists in Jerusalem affairs have warned of the Israeli occupation authority’s (IOA) dangerous intentions ...

Israel continues restrictions at Islam's holy site, with Palestinians fearing Israel's hostilities with Iran are being ...

this would make it the oldest of the current gates in Jerusalem’s Old City Walls. The eastern wall visible today was built in at least four stages, during the reign of Hezekiah, during the time of ...

We stand next to these walls because the fast is about the ... The post Hostage rally held at Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate as attendees mark minor Jewish fast appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Jerusalem’s Western Wall is the holiest site where Jews are ... or take a long detour around the city walls to one of the nearby gates. In 2017, the Jewish Quarter Reconstruction and Development ...